KINGSPORT - Ridgefields Country Club is going on the auction block after all. First Community Bank of East Tennessee filed a full-page advertisement in the Times-News on Friday announcing the sale of the country club at public auction. The auction will ta

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks tumbled Friday as fear swept world markets that financial trouble in the Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai will upend a global economic recovery.Major stock indexes fell about 2 percent from 13-month highs, including the Dow Jones

Unemployment increased by 0.6 percent in Kingsport last month while the jobless rates decreased or was unchanged from September in the other Northeast Tennessee cities with more than 25,000 population.

October's existing home sales in the Kingsport urban area increased 28.9 percent over last month according to TN-VA MLS data. The spike is almost triple the 10.5 percent national increase reported by the National Association of Realtors on Monday.Last mo